Sleeping-car.



No. 833,483. PATENTBD 001'. 16, 1906.

' c. D. PUGSLBY.

. SLEEPING GAR.

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G. D. PUGSLEY.

SLEEPING GAR.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 16, 1906.

Application filed November 1. 1904. Serial IIo. 230,913.

.To all whom/it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHEsTER D. PUesLEY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Peekskill, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sleeping-Oars, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to palace and sleeping cars, and has for its object an individual compartment or state-room for the use of a single passenger. The object is attained by the means set forth in the specification and the accompanying drawings, which I declare to be a full, clear, and exact description of my invention.

In describing the invention reference will first be made to the drawings, in which similarcharacters refer to like parts throughout the several views.

Figure I is the plan of a car in which is shown one arrangement of my individual compartment or state-room. Fig. II is an elevation showing, on an enlarged scale, the window side of the compartment. Fig. III is an elevation showing the interior of the compartment with the aisle-partition removed. Fig. IV is a plan of one of the compartments. Fig. V is a transverse cross-section through the compartment, showing an end of the compartment in which the washstand is located. Fig.VI represents the open end of a sofa, showing how the sofa is usable as a locker for containing bedding. Fig. VII shows the sofa partly arranged for a sleeping-berth.

Fig. I represents a car subdivided into the individual compartments on each side of a passage-way or aisle through the car. The addition to the car of a state-room in one end and a drawing-room and smoking-room in the other end leaves the space to be divided into compartments such as to alternate the doors to the compartments in the manner shown. This is an advantageous arrangement, as it avoids confusion from the use of opposite doors simultaneously and adds to the privacy of the compartments by not having the doors opposite each other. They may be arranged to come opposite, however, when the division of the space in a car'would make such an arrangement a preferable one. This is supposed to be a vestibuled car, '0 v representing the vestibules. c c 0 represent a passage-way or aisle through the car, his a corner reserved for a heater, and Z Z are lockers. The smoking-room b is provided with four chairs 1" and a sofa n. The drawing-room D contains three sofas e e e of the usual sleeping-car description. An annex 1" to the drawingroom contains a washstand i and a toilet t. The space a in the drawing-room is a wardrobe, and the corner 2 is utilized for an umbrella-rack. The state-room s contains two sofas e e, a chair-toilet t, wardrobe u, and washstand i. The two sofas are convertible into berths the same as the sofas in the compartments and are the only berths provided in this room, in this arrangement differing from that hitherto used in state-rooms.

There are various arrangements for converting seats into berths that might be applied to these sofas.

A simple and convenient plan is shown in Figs.VI andVII, in which the sofa-base is made to contain the bedding. The seat-bottom e is hinged at 1, and 2 2, Fig. VI, represent the bedding, The sofacushion may be only a cushion or it may be a spring-seat. The bed would be made upon the cushion, as indicated at 2, Fig. VII. A sideboard may be provided for the berth, which may be folded away with the bedding, as shown in Fig. VI.

The compartments 0., of which there are seven on each side of the aisle, are inclosed on their four sides with doors cl, opening into them from the aisle. They are all arranged upon the same plan as the one at the extreme left, which is lettered as follows: 6 is a sofa convertible into a slee ing-berth. i is a washstand t, a chair-toi et; 1), the partitions, and w a Water-cooler. The cooler or icewater tank is shown as circular and set in the partition, projecting one-half each side of the partition, making one water-tank answer for two compartments and being placed in every other partition.

In Fig. II the window side of a compartment is shown with everything removed from in front of the sofa e, which extends lengthwise of the car. Fig. III illustrates the same side of the compartment with the front partition removed, disclosing the arrangement of the chair-toilet t and the washstand t in their relation to the sofa. The sanitary appliances within the chair-toilet and the washstand are also revealed, and the arrangement of the mirror m above the washstand is shown.

The sanitary appliances may of course be of any form or make. that may be suitable for the purposes. The tops and backs of the chair-toilets would, by preference, be cushioned, as indicated in Fig. III, and the top r of the washstand would be hinged, so it could be raised to give access to the washbasin 1 and when lowered would serve as a table or dressing-stand. These several parts are shown in plan in Fig. IV, while the arrangement of the washstand, water-cooler, mirror, and sofa with reference to each other is further detailed.

Means for ventilation are shown in crosssection in Fig. V. 12 represents the usual roof-ventilator, and two of these, as shown in Figs. II and III, are shown in each compartment. 1/ is a like ventilator in the front or aisle partition, by which the aisle would receive a portion of the air coming in from the outside ventilator.

Means for warming the compartments are not shown, as they would be such as are commonly employed in compartment-cars.

For lighting the aisle in this car the compartment-doors would be provided with glass, as at 9, Fig. V, which may be provided with a curtain, or to prevent the exclusion of light by the closing of the curtains the lights may be of ground or colored glass. These compartments could be furnished with an upper berth, the same as are placed in sleeping-cars; but-this invention seeks to provide for the comfort and exclusiveness of the solitary traveler who would wish to escape from all liability of having a roommate forced upon him. these compartments may be furnished differently from what is shown herein.

The compartments may be differently arranged, with the drawing and state rooms in some other part of the car, or the entire car may be divided into the individual compartments, and the compartments may constitute a single row arranged transversely of the car instead of longitudinally, as shown. To afford the important comforts of travel to the passenger traveling alone and who may desire privacy, the features herein shown are the ones that may be considered of first importance, so that so long as the principles of an individual compartment as herein disclosed are adhered to I do not wish to be limited to the literal showings of my drawings.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. In a sleeping-car, a compartment arranged'for the sole occupancy of a single person, comprising a compartment inclosed on all sides, a sofa placed longitudinally of the compartment on the window side of the car, the com artment and sofa coincident in length, the sofa convertible into a berth, a chair-toilet occupying one end of the compartmentbetween the sofa and the aisle-partition, the other end of the compartment between the sofa and the aisle partition occupied by a combined washstand and table It is obvious that the interiors of I with the accessories of a Water-supply and a mirror and usable as a table from the sofa, the door to the compartment situated between the chair-toilet and the washstand.

2. In a sleeping-car, a compartment ar ranged for the sole occupancy ofa single-person, comprisinga compartment inclosed on all sides, a sofa placed longitudinally of the compartment on the window side of the car,

the compartment and the sofa coincident in length, the'sofa convertible into a sleepingberth, a chair-toilet occupying one end of the compartment between the sofa and the aisle partition, the other end of the compartment between the sofa and the aisle-partition occupied by a combined washstand and table with the accessories of a water-supply and a mirror and usable as a table from the sofa,

the door to the compartment located be tween the chair-toilet and the washstand,

the compartments arranged on opposite sides of a central aisle through the car.

3. In a sleepmg-car, a compartment arranged for the sole occupancy of a single per' son, comprlsmg a compartment mclosed on all sides, a sofa placed longitudinally of the compartment on the window side of the car, the compartment and sofa coincident in length, the sofa convertible into a sleepingberth, a chair-toilet occupying one end of the compartment between the sofa and the aisle-- partition, the other end of the compartment etween the sofa and the aisle-partition occupied by a combined washstand and table withthe'accessories of a water-supply and a mirror and usable as a table from the sofa, the door of the compartment in the a1sle all sides, a' sofa placed longitudinally of the.

compartment on the window side of the car, the compartment and sofa coincident in length, the sofa convertible into a sleepingberth, a chair-toilet occupying one end of the compartment betweenthe sofa and the aislepartition, the other end of the compartment between the sofa and the aisle-partition occupied by a combined washstand and table with the accessories of a water-supply and a mirror and usable as a table from the sofa, the door to the compartment in the aislepartition between the chair-toilet and the washstand, the arrangement of chair-toilets and washstands reversing in alternate compartments so that one water-reservoir is available for two utilities.

5. In a sleeping-car, a compartment arranged for the sole occupancy of asingle person, comprising a compartment inclosed on all sides, a sofa placed longitudinally of the compartment on the window side of the car,

the sofa convertible into a sleeping-berth, a

chair-toilet occupying one end of the compartment between the sofa and the aisle partition, a combined washstand and table with the accessories of a water-supply and a mirror occupying a like space in the other end of the compartment and usable as a table from the sofa, the door to the compartment in the aisle-partition between the chair-toilet and the Washstand, the compartments arranged on opposite sides of a central aisle through the car, and ventilators on the window side of the compartment and in the aislepartition.

6. In a sleeping-car, compartments for the exclusive occupancy of single passengers arranged .on each side of a central aisle, the compartments so arranged that the doors thereto alternate on opposite sides of the aisle, each compartment containing a sofa convertlble into a berth and occupying the length of the compartment on the window side of the car, a door in the center of the aisle-partition, a combined washstand and table filling the space in one end of the com partment between the doorway the aisle partition and the sofa, and usable as a table from the sofa, and a chair-toilet usable as a chair filling the space between the doorway and the sofa in the other end of the compartment, the arrangement of chair-toilets and Washstands reversing in alternate compartments so that one water-reservoir may be available for two utilities.

Signed at Peekskill, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, this 28th day of October, A. D. 1904.

CHESTER D. PUGSLEY.

Witnesses:

BENJ. H. EVERITT, A. F. LAMOS. 

